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Walters Ms. W.671, Album of Persian miniatures and calligraphy

This album of painting and calligraphy was compiled in the late thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE or early fourteenth
century AH / twentieth CE, most likely in Turkey. The signed pieces of calligraphy represent nine different Persian calligraphers,
including Sulṭān ʿAlī al-Mashhadī, Sulṭān Murād al-Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad Ḥusayn, Niʿmat Allāh al-Mashhadī, Muḥammad Aṣghar, Shāh
Muḥammad al-Mashhadī, and Muḥammad Zamān. There are thirty-one paintings, the majority of which are executed in the Safavid
style but are attributable to the late thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE or early fourteenth century AH / twentieth CE.
They were most likely made in Turkey. The borders are polychrome and marbled gold-sprinkled paper. The brown leather binding
decorated with landscape scenes and brushed with gold is contemporary with the compiling of the album.

Date

10th century AH / 16th CE -- 14th century AH / 20th CE

Origin

Iran and Turkey

Artist

As-written name: Aqā Riz̤ā

Name, in vernacular: اقا رضا

Scribe

As-written name: Muḥammad Ḥusayn

Name, in vernacular: محمد حسين

Scribe

As-written name: Sulṭān Murād al-Ḥusaynī

Name, in vernacular: سلطان مراد الحسينى

Scribe

As-written name: Sulṭān ʿAlī al-Mashhadī

Name, in vernacular: سلطان على المشهدى

Scribe

As-written name: Niʿmat Allāh al-Mashhadī

Name, in vernacular: نعمت الله المشهدى

Scribe

As-written name: Muḥammad Aṣghar

Name, in vernacular: محمد اصغر

Scribe

As-written name: Muḥammad Zamān

Name, in vernacular: محمد زمان

Scribe

As-written name: Mīr ʿAlī

Name, in vernacular: مير على

Scribe

As-written name: ʿAlī

Name, in vernacular: على

Scribe

As-written name: Shāh Muḥammad al-Mashhadī

Name, in vernacular: شاه محمد المشهدى

Form

Album

Genre

Historical

Language:

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian. The secondary language of this manuscript is Arabic.

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